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Collected Poems

By Laurie Lee
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Collected Poems by Laurie Lee is a beautifully curated collection of the author's lyrical and evocative poems, capturing the essence of rural England and the profound moments of human experience. With his vivid imagery and heartfelt reflections, Lee's verses explore themes of nature, love, and memory, offering readers an intimate glimpse into his life and thoughts. This compilation allows readers to appreciate the depth and warmth that characterize his poetic works.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate evocative and lyrical poetry that paints vivid pictures of the English countryside and captures the beauty and pain of everyday life. These poems reflect personal memoirs and experiences, offering a poignant glimpse into the poet's world. Ideal for readers who love introspective literature that blends personal history with wider themes of love, nature, and reflection.

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A landmark collection of poems from the author of Cider with Rosie, as evocative and poignant as his prose.

'If ever I saw blessing in the air
I see it now in this still early day...'

Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee's poems also capture war, human relationships, and distant places, informed by his own experiences of lives uprooted by change and conflict.

Written during the course of his lifetime, the verses brought together in Collected Poems range over Lee playing his fiddle in a Spanish town; ecstatic in the springtime of his beloved Slad valley; or digging for faith in the depths of winter.

Gathered in one volume for the first time, and including a generous selection of previously unseen verses from Lee's archives, these timeless, poignant poems show him expressing the essence of life, love, and loss.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241625170

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 204.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 208

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Biography & Memoir Laurie Lee Musicians, Movie Stars & Creative Biographies Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Science & Nature Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War. Laurie Lee published four collections of poems- The Sun My Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and Pocket Poets (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), and Two Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography- Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991).

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